Kura Clover is an interesting option for cover cropping no-till corn producers. Why? Because Kura Clover forms a “living mulch.” I have been working with Dr. Ken Albrecht from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Kura Clover since the summer of 2000. During that summer as I traveled through eastern Iowa and NW Illinois I envisioned […]
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Listed below are what promise to be outstanding cover crop meetings in January 2013. Please make an effort to attend some of these if you can: January 3-4 – Central Ontario Agricultural Conference in Barrie, Ontario. I will be speaking at this meeting on “Using Cover Crops for Feed.” January 9-12 – National No-Till Conference in Indianapolis,
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The corn is now harvested at Robison Farms in rural Greenwood, IN and we are pleasantly surprised. Accurate Yield Estimates We actually achieved a somewhat higher yield than the hand check “guesstimate” that my brother Don and I made back in August. We reported this yield in the blog post Cover Crops Provide Improved Corn Yields
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